Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 2 | To bring the Crown out of the poverty and debt which had marked most of the reign of Henry VI , both Edward IV and Richard III used professional receivers , auditors , and surveyors to increase the revenue from Crown lands ; and much of this larger income was paid , neither to the Exchequer nor to the Crown 's creditors , but to the Chamber of the royal Household , where it was at the disposal of the King . |
| 3 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 4 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 5 | I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ? |
| 6 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 7 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 8 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 9 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 10 | He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth . |
| 11 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 12 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 13 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 14 | He can hardly talk , almost certainly ca n't see and although he was at the funeral probably does n't even realise that his son died in another road accident six months after his . |
| 15 | Leavis was a major critic and a very influential educator , who was convinced both that criticism was essentially evaluative and that it was at the heart of English studies . |
| 16 | But it omitted any reference to the dangers of ‘ Leftism ’ , despite the fact that Deng had stressed this , and that it was at the heart of a party politburo statement . |
| 17 | Accounts differ as to when the unit insignia was first worn , but several of the ‘ Originals ’ maintain that it was at the end of the training period and before the first operation . |
| 18 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 19 | At this point ( overhead the BS ) the Vanguard , while steering approximately north , called that it was at the MN beacon and was advised to report the BN on final approach . |
| 20 | That it was at the seaside made it seem all the worse . |
| 21 | This still means that the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes is now 50% higher than it was at the start of 1991 . |
| 22 | We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 23 | Teacher education is a smaller scale enterprise than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 24 | Yet at the same time — here is the Red Queen effect again — there is no general reason for expecting either side in the arms race to be any more successful at doing its job than it was at the beginning of the arms race . |
| 25 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |
| 26 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 27 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in many parts of the Yorkshire and Humberside region unemployment is significantly lower than it was at the time of the previous election , and that what the regional CBI fears above all else is the havoc that would be caused by a Labour Government , with their commitment to a statutory minimum wage , which would wipe out so many jobs , and to the European Community social chapter , which would make British industry uncompetitive in world terms ? |
| 28 | UK consumption is around a third lower than it was at the beginning of this century . |
| 29 | Moreover , capacity utilization was considerably lower when the previous upswing had begun than it was at the start of the mini-boom of 1972–3 . |
| 30 | Alfred Fry , stage manager of Drew 's company , told the court that he was at the premises in Friar Street when he heard Drew singing at six o'clock ; he also saw and spoke to Drew at 6.15 . |